The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEI
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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